Robert David Sibley (1845-1932) - Find a Grave Memorial

Robert David Sibley Veteran

Birth

31 Oct 1845

Mississippi, USA

Death

14 Jun 1932 (aged 86)

Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA

Burial

Central Cemetery

Robeline, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map

Plot

Row 15

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Andrew B. Booth, Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, volume 3, page 561.

Sibley, R. D., Musician, Company B, 17th La Infantry. Enlisted Sept. 30, 1861, Camp Moore, La. Present on all Rolls to April, 1862. Roll dated May 23, 1862, Present or absent not stated. Under 35 years-16 years of age. Rolls May, 1862, to Oct., 1862, Present, under 18 years of age. Roll Nov. and Dec., 1862, Discharged Dec. 23, reason of minority.

Sibley, R. D., Private. Company E, 2nd La. Cavalry. Enlisted Feb. 27, 1863, Camp Bisland. Roll April 30 to Aug. 31, 1863, Present. Roll of Prisoners of War, C. S. A., Paroled June _, 1865. Resides in Sabine Parish, La.

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History of Louisiana by Chambers.
[Vol. III, pg. 293]

Robert D. Sibley, father of Dr. William Franklin Sibley, was born in Mississippi and was a child when brought to Louisiana. He is now seventy-nine years of age and his home is a small farm adjoining the town of Robeline. When the war broke out between the states he was a student in Bethel Academy, and he ran away from school to join a Regiment of Louisiana Cavalry. He was in the army four years, two years on scout duty. After the war he married Mary Scarborough, member of one of the prominent old pioneer families in the vicinity of Spanish Lake in Natchitoches Parish. Her father was Josiah Scarborough.

After his marriage Robert D. Sibley remained in the Scarborough locality for about one year, then went to Calcasieu Parish and spent two years rafting logs down the river to the saw mills at Lake Charles. He then resumed farming in the Spanish Lake locality for one season and from there moved to a farm five miles south of Robeline just at the edge of Sabine Parish. This was his home for many years, and when he retired he moved to his present country home near Robeline. He has been an active member of the Baptist Church, and a Mason. His first wife died at the age of thirty-three, the mother of five children: Dr. William Franklin, who was ten years old when his mother died; Robert Elmer, who died in childhood; Annie Hasseltine, wife of Dr. J. M. Slater, at Glenmora, La.; Ada Jane, wife of J.F. Cane, of Pleasant Hill, La.; and Blanche, wife of C.M. Ellzey, a farmer near Robeline.

After the death of his first wife Robert D. Sibley married Florence Mobley, a woman of most splendid character, who endeared herself not only to her own but to her step-children as well. She became the mother of the following sons and daughters: Lonnie C., in the oil business at Eldorado,Ark.; Sam J. secretary and treasurer of the Louisiana State Normal College; Edwin, who died when twenty-one years of age, being at that time employed in a Robeline mercantile establishment; Vance, in the oil business at Eldorado, Ark.; Lizzie, wife of Dr. Glass of Robeline; May the wife of Fisher Middleton, a railroad man at Provencal, La.; Gertie, wife of Jack Middleton, of Pineville, La.; Pearl, wife of Ivy Sweeney, an accountant at Shreveport.